[Techtalk] finding bad files

[A. Mani]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
> find [root_dir] -type f -exec cp "{}" /dev/null \; | tee badfiles.txt 2>&1
>
> Then collect the error messages in badfiles.txt.


cat would be faster than cp?
If the latter is going to find errors, then the former will.



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